The Stack Overflow Podcast

Oh the places you’ll go with spatial data

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Ryan is joined by Jeffrey Hightower, VP of Places Data at Microsoft, and Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, to chat about their partnership in bringing spatial data to the next generation of Microsoft tools; how Overture’s 50 organization members are creating open, standardized, and interoperable global spatial data sets; and their solutions to the innate challenges of trying to digitally map the world.

Episode notes:

The Overture Maps Foundation is a free, open, and collaborative spatial data platform creating reliable and interoperable map data infrastructure. Microsoft is a founding member and part of Overture’s Steering committee.

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You don’t understand DNS like you think you do

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Ryan welcomes Cricket Liu, DNS expert and Chief Evangelist at Infoblox, to the show to talk all things DNS. They cover the evolution of one of the oldest DNS server implementations, BIND, and what the future holds for protected DNS configurations; the realities of security threats like DDoS and DNS spoofing; and why outages often trace back to a lack of understanding of DNS’s fundamental role.

Episode notes:

Infoblox is a cloud-managed network services platform for core networking, combining automated infrastructure management and real-time threat intelligence.

You think this is a lot about DNS? Cricket wrote several books about it.

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If context is king, architecture is the castle

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Recorded live at the AI Agent Conference, Ryan sits down with Apollo GraphQL CEO Matt DeBerglis to discuss how enterprises can leverage GraphQL and MCP as a structured semantic architecture to feed clean data to autonomous agents, safeguard internal microservices against unprecedented "east-west" data exfiltration risks, and rein in skyrocketing token spend by explicitly querying only the exact context required.

Episode notes:

Apollo GraphQL lets you orchestrate APIs with a composable, declarative, self-service model. Apollo's MCP Server is now available.

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Developers are emotionally attached to their tools

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Ryan welcomes Trisha Gee, a Java champion and developer productivity advocate, to explore how AI is transforming the role of IDEs and the broader developer experience; the relevance of traditional tools, muscle memory, the risks of hype; and how to adapt workflows for AI-driven development.

Episode notes:

Trisha Gee is a developer advocate and Java champion with over 20 years of software experience.

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Congrats to user citelao for winning a Famous Question Badge for their question VS Code SSH keeps dropping connections, but I can SSH just fine.

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When the cost of code approaches zero, what does engineering leadership look like?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0000

On this episode of Leaders of Code, Eric Anderson, director of engineering at Intuit, joins Stack Overflow engineering director Ben Matthews to talk about what happens to software teams when AI makes code generation seemingly free.

Eric explains how Intuit rolled out Claude Code across the entire organization, why PMs are now merging their own PRs, and what it means for engineering culture when product/engineering roles start to converge. Eric and Ben unpack the engineering skills that matter most in an AI-first industry and why the work of developing junior talent has gotten harder.

Eric also shares how he personally uses AI to manage his inbox, synthesize specs, and run promotion processes (but why he stopped letting it send emails on his behalf).

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Creating checkpoints by gaslighting a Postgres database

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Ryan welcomes Bryan Clark, director of product for Lakebase at Databricks, to discuss what happens when AI agents become the primary creators and users of databases; why agents are “sloppy” about cleaning up infrastructure; and how database branching, scale-to-zero, and centralized access control can help teams keep up with agent-driven development.

Episode notes:

Databricks Lakebase is a Postgres-compatible operational database built around fast branching, separated compute and storage, and tight integration with the Databricks lakehouse.

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Congrats to Populist badge winner Benjamin Merchin for earning the badge for their answer to JSX element class does not support attributes because it does not have a 'props' property.ts(2607).

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Making the OWASP top ten in the vibe code era

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Ryan welcomes back Tanya Janca, now part of the OWASP Top 10 team, to discuss what changed in the latest OWASP Top 10 release, how the list shifted from “outdated components” to a broader software supply chain focus, and why they added memory safety and vibe-coding as awareness items.

Episode notes:

The OWASP Top 10 for 2025 is the latest standard awareness document for developers and web application security that represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications.

Learn more about Tanya’s work at her website and her new podcast DevSec Station. You can learn how to prompt your AI for secure code with her prompt library.

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Congrats to Populist badge winner Rob Kielty for winning the badge on their answer to How can I tell IntelliJ's "Find in Files" to ignore generated files?.

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What it takes to be a player in the international AI game

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0000

From the floor of HumanX, Ryan welcomes Songyee Yoon, managing partner at Principal Venture Partners (PVP), to chat about AI development outside the US, from the need to adapt models to local languages and culture to the challenges of the global supply-chain for things like semiconductors to how venture capital is looking at international AI companies.

Episode notes:

PVP supports early stage, AI-native companies shaping the future of how we live and work. Learn more about their work at their Substack.

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The find out stage of AI is just supply chain and password protection

Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

In this two-for-one special recorded at HumanX, Ryan is joined by Dataiku’s Florian Douetteau to chat about the governance, orchestration, and data requirements for serious agentic systems and 1Password’s Nancy Wang for a conversation on making agent swarms secure.

Ryan first catches up with Dataiku co-founder and CEO Florian Douettea to chat serious agentic systems and why they require intentional frameworks, orchestration, governance, and reusable, documented data products. Then, 1Password’s CTO Nancy Wang returns to the show to discuss why current identity standards don’t fit the new world of agents, especially when ephemeral agent swarms make attribution to a single user difficult.

Episode notes:

Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents.

Florian previously appeared on this program in an episode recorded at the last HumanX conference.

1Password keeps your credentials secure through end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, and more. You can learn more about building secure agent swarms at their blog.

Nancy Wang previously appeared on the pod in March 2026.

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Do you have what it takes to run AI in production?

Tue, 26 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

From the floor of HumanX, Ryan Donovan is joined by Peter Salanki, CTO and co-founder of CoreWeave, to chat about what it really takes to run AI in production; the growing importance of observability, utilization, and scheduling; and Peter’s advice for avoiding the trap of over-architecting too early.

Episode note:

CoreWeave is the AI-native platform cloud that’s purpose-built for AI, combining next-generation infrastructure and intelligent tools to power the world’s most complex AI workloads.

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